Economic theory suggests that the magnitude and direction of a company’s currency risk exposure depends crucially on its fundamental involvement in international trade. For US industries, we find that the stock performance of an import-oriented company moves positively with the performance of the dollar, but the stock performance of an export-oriented company tends to move against the dollar. B...

The aim of this study is to define and introduce the variable of export entrepreneurship and factors affecting it in a global export-centric model. However, we seek to find the effect of the variables of export entrepreneurship and export market orientation‎ on export performance. To test the research hypotheses, a sample of 296 people employed in food and agricultural products company located ...

This paper examines the architectural issues in building storage systems for object-oriented database management systems (OO DBMSs) and persistent languages. We survey techniques for placing small and large objects on disk and disk space management, and we present client-server architectures for OO DBMSs. We describe alternatives in making a programming language persistent and in particular, we...

this paper is analysing the role of economic reforms on the labour market in iranian industry in economic reform period (1990-2005), and in turn, it is comparing it with closed economic period (1979-1989). in order to do the above comparative analysis, the manufacturing industry has been categorized based on hecksher-ohlin and gause methodology. accordingly, we have some industrial groups, incl...

Executive summary Integration of literature review, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis 1 Introduction The World Bank, through its Multilateral Donor Trust Fund for Trade and Development, Fundación Chile and Chile's National Council of Innovation for Competitiveness have developed the study " Can Skills and Competencies for Trade be Taught? ". It assesses the certification of labor c...

Lesotho, a small, mountainous and resource poor country inside South Africa, has emerged as the largest and fastest growing exporter of apparel from Sub-Saharan Africa to the US. Its rapid manufacturing growth has been driven by inflows of export-oriented foreign direct investment. This paper explores this unusual experience against the setting of the dismal record of industrial growth and comp...

Nowadays how to be a successful exporter has reach great importance. Some studies on the entrepreneurial orientation literature highlights the attitude of the manager to make risky strategies such as strategies toward exports. But might the CEO’s attitude toward entrepreneurship be sufficient to achieve greater SMEs export performance? Through an analysis of a database of Spanish and Italian SM...

China and Mexico have both pursued export-oriented development strategies in the global economy, but with different implications for national development and industrial upgrading. While Mexico has been the paradigm for the neoliberal (‘Washington consensus’) development model associated with foreign direct investment, extensive privatization, and open markets, China has attained record levels o...

The Asian economic crisis dramatically influenced the context in which a growing number of international migrants had begun to spread from poorer to more industrialised countries in East Asia, accompanying the export and FDI booms of the 1990s. Important uncertainties included the impact on clandestine migrant workers, replacement of migrants by local workers and countervailing pressures for in...